Is there a cooler architect in Britain than Hugh Broughton?
It shows how to update but not upstage a revered building, says Jay Merrick This historical study is also a fascinating instruction manual for ways of thinking about the past Is there a cooler architect in Britain than Hugh Broughton?
It is hard to imagine a cool European architect in the nineteen-seventies building a television station for General Pinochet without losing a great deal of street cred".
"Most people think engineering isn't sexy," said Mr. Balmond, dressed far from the Prada-clad cool of architects; he wore a black corduroy blazer.
Stefano Dal Piva, of Acme, says that "retail is often not seen as cool by architects but architecture can do something with it.
"It was a privilege to live in Neutra's house, and I gained a special understanding of the spirit of California, the West Coast cool, that architects who came from Europe experienced.
The athletes wanted it to look cool, and architects balanced their needs — down to the custom green PlayStation consoles and pool tables made by the same Portland company that designed two for Michael Jackson — with those of the coaches, who are older and spend most of their waking hours in the center and wanted, more than anything, a diverse selection of after-shave.
Priced in the $1,000 range, about the same as an Aeron, the Leap aims to be as cool for the architects, designers and home-office workers who buy this type of chair.
"It was cool that as an architect he had this existential crisis where he thought, Is my job to make monuments for rich people?" he said.
Mr. Koolhaas's designs are both fashionable (he is the architect of the cool lime-green-walled lime-green-walled lime-green-walled they relate to contemPraday culture and the urban environment.
